Fibrous carbon produced by catalytic decomposition of methane and containing minor amount of Ni was tested as a support for molybdenum disulfide-based catalysts for reductive conversion of CO into alcohols. It was established for the first time using method of X-ray diffraction, transmission and scanning microscopy that during sulfidation of catalyst precursor nickel, incapsulated in carbon, intgrates into layered molybdenum disulfide cristallites, becoming part of the catalytically active Ni—(Co)—Mo—S phase.
M. E. Osman (2025) studied this question.